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Go to system settings, select users and groups and unlock the padlock with your password, click the + button and add a new user.

Then go up to Apple icon and logout and login using the new user password. I then used the external hard drive through the Time Machine backup and restored from there. So when my wife logs in all her stuff is there just like it was on her laptop.

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